On Mon, Aug 24, 2020, at 3:38 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2020/08/22 00:12, Edd Barrett wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:03:38AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
> > > -WANTLIB += c pthread
> > 
> > I think I may have been wrong to remove this, even though `make
> > port-lib-depends-check` is happy.
> > 
> > Is that right Stuart?
> 
> You'll need to ask someone familiar with go. One of the problems with
> go ports is there is no mechanism to trigger updates when the compiler
> itself is updated (which will usually result in the built packages
> changing).
> 
> We don't really want a run dependency on the compiler but there's no
> other way to say "update this package when the compiler is updated"
> as there's no library dependency (the usual trigger for this..)
> 
>

Fwiw, jsing has a branch of upstream Go that makes the transition to using libc 
:
( https://github.com/4a6f656c/go/tree/openbsd-syscall , 
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36435 )
Maybe we keep the wantlib until this is in our tree? Less work down the line 
maybe.

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